Op-Eds & Reviews

The Indian version of the #MeToo movement had its humble origins in Bhateri, a small village in the state of Rajasthan. In 1992, Bhanwari Devi was gang-raped by higher-caste landlords for attempting to prevent a child marriage. This was a watershed... more

The geopolitical implications for the Winter Olympics will be significant for 2018, and not just because of Nigeria’s trailblazing bobsled team. On January 17, North and South Korea announced that not only would they would march together under one... more

Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation from 1470 to the Present Written By Serhii Plokhy New York: Basic Books, 2017, 398 pp. Serhii Plokhy, an eminent historian of Early and Modern Ukraine, starts Lost... more

“The better we know the communities, the better we can protect them.” With these words, Charles Grady, FBI’s Community Outreach Specialist, unveiled the first annual Community, Cops and Culture event on October 28th, 2017 in Albertus... more

Social impact bonds (SIB) promise to promote public sector innovation by drawing private capital to support new ideas and collecting rigorous evidence of what works. Armed with that evidence, governments will then scale up the ideas that work. At... more

Long before an indictment is handed down by a grand jury, criminal prosecutors spend hours poring over every angle of the case. In my time with the Department working on white-collar crime, I heard discussion of collateral consequences on every... more

In Jerusalem, a start-up called Energiya Global is designing solar energy projects in sub-Saharan Africa. Life in the colourful little company is a respite from “the conflict” that looms large over every dinner table conversation, every... more

In late 2015, the German government made a series of fateful pledges as thousands of asylum seekers were traveling through Europe. It promised not to turn away any Syrian refugees who reached its borders, while Chancellor Angela Merkel also refused... more

Human Rights After Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes Written by Dan Plesch Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2017. 240pp. It is perhaps not as commonly known as it should be that the movement for international justice... more

The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep – Russia’s Road to Terror and Dictatorship Under Yeltsin and Putin Written by David Satter New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016, 240pp. David Satter, a journalist who has covered Russia for more than 30... more